Above: a nearly eight-minute “trailer” for Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, an anti-Darwinism documentary starring and produced by Ben Stein (yes, that Ben Stein). The independently-financed doc will hit theaters in mid-April. According to Variety, Stein and friends have hired Motive Entertainment, the marketing firm behind The Passion of the Christ, who are the go-to guys for projects looking to tap into the elusive but potentially lucrative Christian conservative market.
What’s interesting is how aggressive the film seems to be about appealing to the audience’s latent desire to rebel against the establishment. The trailer focuses on Darwin-defaming scientists and professors who have been “shunned and discredited” for “suggesting that we aren’t merely mud animated by lightning after all.” Stein works hard to paint these guys as outlaws whose ideas are so “dangerous” that a giant conspiracy has sprung up to suppress him, led by insecure bureaucrats like…Richard Dawkins? He even warns the viewer that the very act of watching the film “could land you in a heap of trouble.” Sounds sexy, right?
I assume the hope is that college kids are so eager to embrace anything that has anything to do with saying “fuck you” to authority, that they’ll hop on the intelligent design band wagon just to be contrarian. And who knows…there isn’t any decent music for kids with a hardon for rebellion to get behind these days, maybe they’ll buy the Nixon speechwriter-as-institution smashing rockstar just out of desperation.
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My goodness, are we still a bunch of superstitious monkeys living in the stone ages swinging from the trees? Maybe, huh?
How on Earth does someone teach a “guess”, a mythology, in college? You can’t teach creationism as a fact when there isn’t a shred of evidence to support any of that. You cant say there is a god if you have no proof. At best you can only hypothesize.
They might as well have changed every reference of “God” to “Casper” and try to teach that instead, ha. Creationism isn’t even an alternative to science and evolution. You might as well pick up a sci-fi novel and try to teach that as fact. Silly gullible monkeys.
How can anyone say there is a god without having any proof and knowing for sure? Isn’t that a sin? Isn’t a “make-believe” god the same thing as a false idol? If you don’t know for sure, you ARE playing make-believe and worshipping a contrived-in-your-head false idol. Right?
How does anyone know they are worshipping the right god, or an idol, without actually knowing for sure? Isn’t that pretty risky? Maybe teaching “make-believe” is a sin in itself, and these guessing monkeys are leading ya’ll to false idol worshipping.
Wouldn’t it be safer to wait for some kind of concrete proof before jumping on any worship wagon? I know I ain’t gonna start worshipping any spook that is merely make-believe in my head. If any god wants me to know it created all this and wants me to worship it, it’s going to have to set up a meeting with me first and present some convincing credentials and evidence. I will not risk any false idol and dogma worshipping myself . . . just in case. What does any god take me for? A dupish make-believing idol worshipping fool?
And on top of it all, what kind of sick twisted sadistic kind of god would create such a pretty world as this and then stock it with pain and suffering, and flesh and blood craving carnivorous? A perverted vampire god? If there is a creator of all this, then he/she/it is a pretty demented puppy to have designed such a bloody world as this. Even I could have designed a nicer reality than this stinking sespool of a world.
Sorry, my middle name is not gullible! Keep this junk out of the schools until someone can prove it. Golly, we don’t teach time travel is true too, do we? It might be possible, but then again it might not be. Keep the make-believe stuff out of the schools! So long as it is possible that there may be no god too, then you can’t say there is because that would make you a make-believing liar liar. Right? Even if it is true, you do not actually know and you can’t say so (well, I suppose a sinner could say so, ha).
I think an analogous documentary film should also be made concerning the DINOGLYFS or dinolits:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/dinosaur.htm
It seems that the ancient man not only saw but also documented the last megafauna (gigafauna, I should say).
Other animations on the tiny cellular machineries apart from the Expelled movie can be seen in here:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Videos_animations_flagella_evidence_existence_creation_contra_evolution.htm
pauli.ojala@gmail.com
Biochemist, Finland
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Expelled-the-Movie-Evolution-Intelligent-Design-ID.htm
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